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What I mean is someone sets up a new community, blasts it with a bunch of content to get things started, or sets up a new community bot that makes 20 posts and every other post in my feed is that community. Usually with 1 or 2 votes each and no comments. No matter what way I sort I see this.

I have zero issues with people getting things going within their space, and it’s not a knock against new communities that don’t want to be empty when people stumble across them.

It’s a complaint about the algorithm flooding my feed with so much content from one place that I’ve unfortunately blocked communities over this that I otherwise would have continued to run across and maybe engaged with in the future.

I’m not sure if your first X results should all be unique communities or putting some sort of engagement threshold in place before they show up in the top X posts or something. I don’t really have a perfect answer but to me this is a flaw in the system.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, what's this lemmitonlinebot that's flooding my feed and linking to Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You can disable bot posts in your user settings, or just ban that 1 user

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It happens to auto post everywhere just after I finish work, makes using lemmy basically impossible for a couple hours... entire feed is filled with 1 upvote 0 comment bot posts

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That bot is one of the few users I've had to block. I'm happy to sift through 'organic' posts that don't interest me, but when it's just reposting Reddit posts and losing the benefit of the discussion under that post, it kinda sucks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly those repost bots are an absolute cancer and shouldn’t be allowed. The ones that post links directly to the posts on Reddit are particularly egregious and fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

IDK I kinda like them. I can use them to find something to post to Lemmy without needing to actually open Reddit, especially on my phone where using Reddit is hard